CONNECTED, BUT ALONE? A VIDEO BY SHERRY TURKLE [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 102]

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CONNECTED, BUT ALONE? A VIDEO BY SHERRY TURKLE [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 102]

By Marc on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | No Comments

Brothers and sisters, “The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us… We’re letting (technology) take us places we don’t want to go…” “..(O)ur fantasies of substitution have cost us…What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.” The video is right below this short introduction. And so cultural analyst and professor Sherry Turkle makes the effective case that we’re losing it…what is “it?” The fabric of human connection and the solitude needed to develop this God ordained holy activity that is the way He prescribed the advancement and completion of His Kingdom through His Lord Jesus. Emails. Texts. Social Media. Avatars. Robot companions. Virtual reality. Customized lives. Rush. Rush. Rush. Hide. Hide. Hide. This is not what God intended. As I say often, if Jesus Christ needed captured electricity to advance and [...]

THE DAY YOUR DAD DIES [DEAR BRETHREN 7]

By Marc on Friday, January 20th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Dear brethren, Some of you are wondering about us here on the sudden death of my dad. Some of you, also, have tasted grief and sorrow amongst the Lord’s mercies even in the face of death yourself or that of a loved one…or even a parent. In the West, most of us are ill prepared for the end of mortal life, a necessary part of eternal life. The mobile phone custom ringtone from the song “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” blared out the announcement that a special call was coming in later Tuesday afternoon that week. I suspected it was my wife, Sandy. My hands were full of groceries taken from the cart at Costco. I think I had a bag of pecans in one hand and a gallon of OJ in the other at that very time. They were shuffled quickly into the empty cardboard boxes on the floor [...]

AN ANGEL CAPTURED ON FILM – THE SPIRIT WORLD IS REAL [THE DEVIL’S SCHEMES 1]

By Marc on Sunday, June 5th, 2011 | 7 Comments

Sheri could hardly contain herself. She rushed breathlessly into my office early one Florida spring morning around 8. I looked up startled at her beaming face as she blurted out her story. “Marc, my daughter came home last night from her church youth group and told us of a family that was protected by an angel! She saw a picture with a real angel.” “What?” I seemed to remember replying. I was a brand new Christian at that time in 1988, having been saved less than a year. But it was by all accounts the pearl of great price in my life, for Jesus the Master had invaded. Even in my sinful lifestyle that I kept for some time afterwards including living with a good looking floozy and doing light recreational drugs nightly, the Holy Spirit was relentless when no one else in the small Baptist church she and I [...]

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